MMSCOMP and Nokia 7650

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Ulrika
Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 09:37 am:   

I have been trying the mmscomp utility and the files that it produces work fine with Ericsson t68 and T300 but not with Nokia 7650. Anybody who knows if the header file and smil file need to be of a certain format in order for it to work with Nokia? All that happens when I send the message is that the phone makes a beeping sound, displays the message "retrieving message" a "G" starts to rotate in the upper left corner and then... nothing.

I enclose the files that I have been using if anybody has any tips to give me. I run the utility with the following line:

mmscomp wednesday_3.hdr text_image.smil

--- wednesday_3.hdr ---

X-Mms-Message-Type: m-retrieve-conf
X-Mms-Transaction-ID: 0133476789
X-Mms-MMS-Version: 1.0
Subject: Test
To: +456/TYPE=PLMN
Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.multipart.related

--- text_image.smil ---

<smil>
<head>
<layout>
<root-layout width="160" height="140"/>
<region id="Image" width="160" height="120" left="0" top="0"/>
<region id="Text" width="160" height="20" left="0" top="120"/>
</layout>
</head>

<body>
<par dur="5s">
<img src="coffee.gif" region="Image" />
<text src="coffee.txt" region="Text" />
</par>
</body>
</smil>

/Ulrika
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:40 pm:   

Ulrika,

As a first step, try leaving out the "Content-type:" field. When that is present, it overrides the default Content-type that MMSCOMP would assign ... and in this particular case, MMSCOMP would automatically use that particular type and add: ; type="application/smil"; start="text_image.smil"

However, that said, I don't think it would make a significant difference here. The 7650 should still receive the message.

Can the 7650 receive any MMS messages that you generate? I'm wondering if maybe it is on a different operator (where the MMS configuration is closed), or the MMS configuration settings on the phone are not setup.

-bn
lars
Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:09 pm:   

I have some cool mms services that totally relies on the MMSCOMP.exe and all of my stuff the creates mms via mmscomp.exe works fine on all Nokia Series.
I try to put as little as i can into the header. Thats about it.
But i must say that i am dissapointed in how little time Nokia has put into their mms in their phones.
An example.
I have a small utility written in flash and xml that can create a mms with three pages.
1 page for a picture and a sound.
1 page for some text.
And a third page for some text of where the mms was sent from.
They have stuff like backgroundcolor and font styles in them.
Now SonyEricsson and Panasonic displays everything fine.
But Nokia...
The pages does not shift after the seconds defined in the smil code. You have to click down to read them. Theres no background og font color posibillities. White background and black text. Thats it.
And the other way around.
When sending from eg. a Nokia 7650. You have almost no posibillities to make it a fun mms to look at. And try using mmscomp to decompress the mms file that you sent from your 7650, or other nokia phones.
That's about the baddest SMIL code ever seen. And the header information is also lacking.
Still i am not a 100% sure that the telcos MMSC does touch the headerinformation before it reaches the recipient.
I have to point out that Panasonic really rocks regarding MMS. Both in creating good code on the phone, and in receiving/displaying it on the phone.
It is highly recommendable to buy one for developing/testing purposes.

When testing with mmscomp.exe allways start with the simplest tyoe of mms. When it works to your satisfaction do some more advanced stuff.